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John Manard, murderer who escaped Kansas prison in 2006, dies

By Brian Dulle,

3 days ago

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The man who escaped Lansing Correctional Institution in a dog crate 18 years ago has died in an out-of-state prison.

John Manard had been in a prison outside of Kansas for the last seven years.

The Kansas Department of Corrections listed him as having died on Sunday, August 25.

Manard was serving a life sentence for a deadly carjacking in 1996. But in 2006, while in a prison dog training program, Manard convinced a trainer named Toby Young to carry him out in a dog crate .

The two were on the run for several days and lived in a cabin in Tennessee before a chase topping 100 mph ended with the couple smashing into a tree. Young was sentenced to 27 months in prison for aiding the escape.

Kansas sent Manard to a facility out of the state in 2017.

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